The difference between the America of today and the America of what seems like just yesterday is that we once had a common culture. As recently as 1990, Ken Burns could make a Civil War documentary for PBS and let historian Shelby Foote wax eloquent on the martial prowess of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest — something that now would likely get them both tarred, feathered, and Twitter-banned.
So what to do? We can start by trying to stop the Left’s war on America’s past, which is poisoning the well-spring of our national identity. If William McKinley, a Union officer turned president, could approve a Confederate memorial at Arlington Cemetery, it seems to me that we can at least be as understanding of our own history. Let us remember that President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who ordered the 101stAirborne Division to help desegregate Arkansas’s public schools, kept a portrait of Robert E. Lee in his office at the White House and admired him as a hero (as did, incidentally, George C. Marshall, whose anti-fascist bona fides are rather more profound than Antifa’s, I reckon).
Of course it's not just the taliban Left now pushing the ethnic cleansing of the South. They're finding plenty of fellow travelers who think that this is a swell idea.
https://spectator.org/americas-next-civil-war-will-be-worse-than-our-last/
The hatred of true nobility is a sickness largely confined to the most despicable Leftists. But it is not really surprising that the Revolutionary breed would want to deny their intended victims, role models who inspire our higher aspirations.
Actually the most hate driven academic loons, today, are pushing new behavioral norms, which would have the effect of making the honest little boy in The Emperors New Clothes, the villain of the fable.
Just as the 1793 "Reign Of Terror," Tulip bubble & 17th Century witch hunts finally came to an end, one can only hope that the present excesses may actually be the final death throes of egalitarian insanity in the West.